Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm] cgroup: uid-based rules to add processes efficiently in the right cgroup

[Paul Menage]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:12 AM,  <righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> unfortunately I don't have too much details for now, so I was just
> looking for the most generic solution. The PAM lib approach seems
> reasonable for each daemon that represents an entry point to the
> system,

The PAM approach seems like the cleanest solution to me.

>
>> due to their "magical" nature - any task that does a setuid() now
>> risks being swept off into a different cgroup.
>
> If the admin configures so, moving tasks that do setuid() in different
> cgroups should be an expected behaviour, isn't it?

Is the sysadmin aware of all the places in all system daemons that do
setuid() calls?

Paul
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